Al-Bara' ibn al-Marour

al-Bara' ibn al-Marour was a sahabi of Muhammad.

Biography
al-Bara' ibn al-Marour was from the city of Yathrib (Medina), and he came with twelve people to listen to Muhammad speak at the Ka'aba in Mecca in 612. In 619, he came to Mecca to look for Bilal al-Rabah, and he told him that there were hundreds of Muslims in Yathrib. He asked Muhammad and his followers to leave Mecca and head to Yathrib while meeting with him at the hill in Aqaba, and Muhammad agreed to end the violence in Yathrib in return for the assistance of the Yathrib Muslims. He was a member of the shura that met before the Battle of Badr, and he took part in many battles of early Islam.